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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1954
Page
4
Subscription prices listed by mail or motor route for one year six months and one month in advance with separate figures for in state and outside states. The notice shows postage and rate variations likely for different delivery areas and time frames. The legible portions point to annual and six month terms with corresponding monthly options and postage.
A religious reflection quotes wisdom and understanding as essential to obtaining all things. The excerpt emphasizes the priority of wisdom above other pursuits with a likely sermon-like tone.
Dr Perrin H Long of New York told the Oklahoma Academy of General Health that medical advances have extended life and created a vast need to care for millions of elderly. He urged doctors to help communities ensure worthwhile old age and warned that unhappy retirement worsens health.
The piece reflects on factory smokestacks facing obsolescence as nuclear power rises. It notes their ugliness and pollution yet acknowledges their role in industrial power and imagination. The author muses that stacks will join the skyline of history alongside pyramids, with no poems praising them.
The piece proclaims a new season and renewal both in nature and the human heart. Spring brings longer days, budding life, and a heightened sense of growth as winter fades and valleys warm.
In evocative prose the piece contrasts grand ancient monuments with modern nuclear promise. It ponders how a pea sized uranium 235 could symbolize a civilization’s peak, while noting disintegration occurs unseen in steel, concrete, or lead, whether in submarines or silent deep mines.
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat editorial praises a Rome controversy on Mona Lisa’s identity, arguing a playful scholarly dispute can fascinate without stirring fear. It contrasts this with global threats and suggests more such nonthreatening puzzles, like assessing the Tower of Pisa’s timeline.
A humorous piece notes the growing problem of unwanted Easter ducks as they mature and seek new homes. Piedmont Park lake rejects them for fishing, Grant Park Lake is full, Allatoona Lake cannot host them, and private lakes may only accept a few, leaving many without a place to go.
In News of Other Years items, Miss Rebecca Ann Ashby was chosen Miss Clarke County and will ride Clarke's float in the Festival parade. Other notes mention Mrs Jules R Bernd returning home from visits in Phoenixville and Philadelphia, and Good Friend Class events at the First Evangelical United Brethren Church. 10 years ago in 1944, Cpl Nelson Warner and wife visited family in Winchester before returning to Alexandria Virginia.
Miss Jean Marie Robinson daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles A Robinson was announced as the second Maid of Honor to Queen Shenandoah XXII. Robert Kern son of Mr and Mrs Wilbur Kern won a 1200 dollar musical scholarship to Valley Forge Military Academy in Wayne Pennsylvania. Mr and Mrs H B Nicodemus announced the marriage of their daughter Audrey Virginia Nicodemus to Mr Wendell E Whit tington son of Mr and Mrs C L Whittington. Circle No 7 of Braddock Street Methodist Episcopal Church met at the home of Mrs J W Affleck. Mr William R Hillyard ill for months suffered a relapse and remained in critical condition. Mrs Lawrence Herrell visiting Mr and Mrs Pliny Wilson at their home in Johnstown.
The Rev. C. D. Bulla delivered a sermon to members of the Odd Fellows. The event highlights a religious address within the fraternal lodge.
The Geneva conference opens soon as experts warn time is critical to avert a wider collapse in Indochina. The piece surveys political and psychological needs, Bao Dai politics, and propaganda efforts by the United States and France, with focus on mobilizing Vietnamese leadership and officer training amid growing Viet Minh pressure.
Dr Herman N Bundesen discusses renewed use of bloodletting for specific diseases such as congestive heart failure and polycythemia. He notes benefits in severe cases when blood removal ranges from a pint to a quart, and mentions a rare diabetes with bronze skin as another condition helped by this practice.
Past 24 hours ending 7 am today shows April rainfall trace and year to date 1.11 inches in 1954. The 41 year average total is 36.84 inches per year with monthly averages listed from January 2.51 to December 2.51 inches, highlighting April at 3.14 and other month figures.
A reader quiz promises daily 9 to 10 correct answers classifying readers as Memory Genius Very Superior Excellent Good. Page 2 offers answers. Questions cover Woodrow Wilson birthplace Stimson era, Triborough Bridge, Delaware vs Rhode Island size, John Adams birthday, Captain John Smith Virginia, Spanish for mountain, reverse English in billiards, bumble bee buzz, Palm Sunday timing relative to Easter.
widow Gale Taber refuses Sewell Albright’s marriage proposal and faces mounting debts after her husband’s death. On their Tennessee farm, daughters Ravel and Julia shape love and work, with Ravel chasing Dr Pete Marshall while John-Mark Williamson looms as a potential match. Gale weighs marriage against family fortunes and futures.
Julia tends fires and cares for Thelma after a fall as John Mark reveals long simmering feelings. They discuss Gale Taber’s finances and potential marriages to salvage the family farm while Dooley contemplates a future with Julia who rebuffs a profit driven proposal. The scene ends with unspoken yearning and unfinished plans.
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